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Nina Brown's Replica Of Room 31 / Re: Room 31: A Replica
« on: December 11, 2025, 11:57:53 am »
That’s impressive. Great work Nina. You could have a sideline making Doll’s House.
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General Discussion / Re: The Stand Outs
« on: November 10, 2025, 03:42:18 pm »
Apologies for a lack of originality How but any list that I would come up with would just involve the same names that you and Pete have already cited.
Personally I’d have liked to have ‘put the thumbscrews’ on Damon. Maybe I’d add John Lee to the list.
Personally I’d have liked to have ‘put the thumbscrews’ on Damon. Maybe I’d add John Lee to the list.
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General Discussion / Re: A New Thorn In Our Side: The Age of AI
« on: November 10, 2025, 03:36:24 pm »
I might be accused of having a negative attitude toward the advances in technology and or ever greater reliance on it How but I think that AI is one of the scariest, most dangerous things that I’ve ever seen. The future holds huge and extremely dangerous problems related to AI for everyone. If the decision was mine to make I’d ban it outright. No question.
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Sketches & Photographs / Re: **Another Photo Of The East River Hotel?**
« on: October 26, 2025, 02:41:35 pm »
If the cameraman had stood a few feet to the left we would have seen the beginning of the name on the side of the building. Some people have no consideration.
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General Discussion / Re: **** Attachment Issues On The Site --- October 26, 2025 ****
« on: October 26, 2025, 02:37:41 pm »
The nightmare of technology How.
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Sketches & Photographs / Re: **Another Photo Of The East River Hotel?**
« on: October 26, 2025, 12:52:18 pm »
Bingo!
Well done How. Another great find. That surely has to be the ERH. As you say, it’s a shame about the tent.
Well done How. Another great find. That surely has to be the ERH. As you say, it’s a shame about the tent.
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Sketches & Photographs / Re: **Another Photo Of The East River Hotel?**
« on: October 26, 2025, 10:29:32 am »
Sorry How but I’m getting the same message about the picture not being available. It’s happened on Casebook and JtRForums a lot lately.
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General Discussion / Re: Three Years Afloat : 2022-2025
« on: September 22, 2025, 04:09:14 pm »
Howard and Nina,
I can’t think of any two people who have contributed such a high percentage of the information that exists about any single case. The effort that you have put in, and continue to put in, is amazing. As far as I’m concerned you are the Oracles of this case.
A big thumps up to Kattrup too for his important contributions.
All that you three have to do now is to conclusively solve the case.
Keep up the great work.
I can’t think of any two people who have contributed such a high percentage of the information that exists about any single case. The effort that you have put in, and continue to put in, is amazing. As far as I’m concerned you are the Oracles of this case.
A big thumps up to Kattrup too for his important contributions.
All that you three have to do now is to conclusively solve the case.
Keep up the great work.
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Editorials & Essays / Re: Three Degrees Of Separation
« on: September 21, 2025, 01:30:23 pm »
On a slightly different subject How, and I maybe misremembering this, but didn’t you say a while ago that you were in touch with an Algerian researcher and you were hoping that he might have some luck in tracing Ali’s life after he’d gone home? I’m assuming that the guy had no luck?
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Editorials & Essays / Re: Three Degrees Of Separation
« on: September 21, 2025, 11:49:16 am »
Great work pulling the threads of that one together How. I must admit that as soon as I saw the word ‘key’ I started to wonder how this might tie in to some kind of theory but hey…who needs more complications.
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Editorials & Essays / Re: Top Ten Things We'd Like To Know
« on: August 28, 2025, 10:06:48 am »A few fairly obvious ones How.
13. Details on the rest of Ali’s life. What he did (any evidence of violent crime), when he died etc?
14. More information on the hotel locks.
15. Who was Damon’s mysterious, vanishing servant and what did she really know?
16. Was there a hidden (maybe in some way politically motivated) reason for the concerted effort to get Ali released?
17. Was there any significance in the ‘x’ that the killer carved into her buttock?
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General Discussion / Re: The Carrie & Campbell Conundrum
« on: August 24, 2025, 10:14:31 am »
I’d say that it’s difficult (to perhaps put it mildly) to escape the conclusion that these two women had been mixed up; both being known as Shakespeare. In the Buffalo Sunday Morning News, 26th April article it’s not difficult to imagine the reporter inserting Carrie Brown every time that Brennan might have just called her Shakespeare. The article from The People is slightly more problematical because we have her specifically stating that she knew that Shakespeare was Carrie Brown but I still think it possible that the reporter just added this part as a confirmation to the readers that Brown was Shakespeare.
Maybe Campbell changed her story according to who she was with? Perhaps Mooney got the real story but Brennan got a version that Campbell thought showed her in a better light? Campbell might not have wanted to be seen as a woman who her husband was paying to stay away but she preferred a story where she was outthinking a well-to-do Merchant out of $30 a month?
Maybe Campbell changed her story according to who she was with? Perhaps Mooney got the real story but Brennan got a version that Campbell thought showed her in a better light? Campbell might not have wanted to be seen as a woman who her husband was paying to stay away but she preferred a story where she was outthinking a well-to-do Merchant out of $30 a month?
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Editorials & Essays / Re: How Relevant Was The Room Key In The Case, Anyway?
« on: August 03, 2025, 02:43:55 pm »
This has probably been asked before and maybe I’ve seen too many movies but how easy or difficult do we think it would have been for someone with a criminal background and a bit of know how to pick an ERH lock?
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Editorials & Essays / Re: A Review Of The Providence News Article: June 10, 1902
« on: August 03, 2025, 02:04:51 pm »
Excellent find by Pete. The Brown/Damgaard network keeps finding them.
So Byrnes didn’t mention the confession at the trial because he thought that the case was strong enough and I can understand why the Prosecution decided not to use it but why didn’t he bring it up at the appeals? Surely it would have removed any possibility of a favourable outcome for Ali and his team?
So Byrnes didn’t mention the confession at the trial because he thought that the case was strong enough and I can understand why the Prosecution decided not to use it but why didn’t he bring it up at the appeals? Surely it would have removed any possibility of a favourable outcome for Ali and his team?
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The Internal Mysteries List / Re: The Hard Stuff: Possible Motive: One-Off Murder: Whether It Was Overkill: And A Case Against Ali
« on: July 24, 2025, 02:44:54 am »
As you’ll probably recall How I’ve previously mentioned my feeling that the head-wrapping and the cross were reminiscent to me of the kind of things that serial killers tend to do but, as you’ve pointed out, this could have been overkill due to a connection between killer and victim. I think that’s it’s often difficult to shake something from your brain once something has struck you as relevant and this is what’s happened with me. (Another point that might be worth making is - how can we be sure that Ali hadn’t killed before?
We do have to work hard to ‘exonerate’ Ali - the blood, the proximity, his own history, the lies etc. Sometimes it’s the case that the obvious culprit is the culprit. As you say How….why would he keep quiet if he had an innocent explanation? This leaves us with Damon’s decidedly fishy tale - hardly convincing.
I guess that one of the questions that I’d like to get answered (but that’s about as likely as you being the next Pope
is - why would anyone go to such an extent to pardon and free someone like Ali? He was hardly an attractive ‘cause.’ I still wonder if Ali was just a tool used to discredit a police force or an administration or to make someone look good by giving them their ‘crusader for justice’ badge in the eyes of the public?
We do have to work hard to ‘exonerate’ Ali - the blood, the proximity, his own history, the lies etc. Sometimes it’s the case that the obvious culprit is the culprit. As you say How….why would he keep quiet if he had an innocent explanation? This leaves us with Damon’s decidedly fishy tale - hardly convincing.
I guess that one of the questions that I’d like to get answered (but that’s about as likely as you being the next Pope
is - why would anyone go to such an extent to pardon and free someone like Ali? He was hardly an attractive ‘cause.’ I still wonder if Ali was just a tool used to discredit a police force or an administration or to make someone look good by giving them their ‘crusader for justice’ badge in the eyes of the public?